News from February 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that two men and a woman from Oklahoma, convicted of Passing Counterfeit U.S. Currency, have been sentenced by Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: $150,000 in Bribes Demanded from an Employer in Exchange for Not Representing Union Members’ Interests.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at an Energy Subcommittee hearing entitled, “Saving Energy: Legislation to Improve Energy Efficiency and Storage:"
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man was charged in federal district court with Assault on a Federal Officer and Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Yesterday, U.S. Senator Tom Carper, top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, was joined by 33 senators in introducing legislation that would put our country on a pathway toward net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by no later than 2050.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) remarks at a Health Subcommittee hearing titled, “Saving Energy: Legislation to Improve Energy Efficiency and Storage."
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that CHRISTIAN PATTERSON, 20, of Hartford, pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to one count of possession with intent to distribute, and distribution of, fentanyl and cocaine base (“crack").
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 12, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement after House Education and Labor Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee finished marking up their respective proposals to end surprise medical billing.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: I. Illegal Reentry After Deportation (8 U.S.C. 1326).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Kristina O’Connell, Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation in New England, announced that VERONICA HUITZIL, 39, of Bridgeport, waived her right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport to preparing false tax returns for clients.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON-The National Park Service (NPS) has approved a plan to improve access to Fletcher’s Cove in Washington, DC. The improvements will enable direct, safe travel between Canal Road and the Fletcher’s Boathouse. The NPS plans to build new entrance ramps, reconfigure and resurface existing parking lots and add new, marked pedestrian crossings.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: DEATH VALLEY, CA - On the evening of February 6, 2020, Inyo County Sheriff's Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: In San Antonio today, a federal judge sentenced a Carrizo Springs man to 200 months in federal prison for setting up a hidden camera in his bathroom to video minor females over a four-year period beginning in August 2012, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: PLANO, Texas - Attorney General Maria Consuelo Porras Argueta, of the Republic of Guatemala, joined United States Attorney Joseph D. Brown, Adam Cohen, Director of the Department of Justice’s Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF), and Drug Enforcement Administration Assistant Special...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson of Minnesota released a statement today in response to the release of the White House’s proposed budget request for fiscal year 2021. The budget includes a call for an 8.2 percent reduction in discretionary spending at USDA when the Department’s...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: The Trump administration recently announced its support for a bipartisan bill that would help curb prescription drug prices. The Prescription Drug Pricing Reduction Act-introduced by Senators Chuck Grassley, R-IA, and Ron Wyden, D-OR-would shield vulnerable senior communities on Medicare from rising...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN - James Deshawn Whitelow, 24, has been sentenced to 108 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm, possession of a firearm during a drug trafficking crime, and possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: A father who threatened to shoot up a Dallas daycare has been charged with a gun crime, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man convicted of Abusive Sexual Contact was sentenced on Feb. 10, 2020, by Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2020
News Release: TAMPA, Fla. - Emmanuel de la Cruz, 40, of Riverview, today pleaded guilty to distributing cocaine. He faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
